Age-disparate partnerships and HSV-2 among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: implications for HIV infection risk | Zendy

Brendan MaughanBrown | Zendy; Gavin George | Zendy; Sean Beckett | Zendy; Meredith Evans | Zendy; Lara Lewis | Zendy; Cherie Cawood | Zendy; David Khanyile | Zendy; Ayesha B. M. Kharsany | Zendy

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Age-disparate partnerships and HSV-2 among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: implications for HIV infection risk

Author(s) -

Brendan MaughanBrown,

Gavin George,

Sean Beckett,

Meredith Evans,

Lara Lewis,

Cherie Cawood,

David Khanyile,

Ayesha B. M. Kharsany

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

sexually transmitted infections

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.893

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1472-3263

pISSN - 1368-4973

DOI - 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053577

Subject(s) - medicine , demography , poisson regression , incidence (geometry) , young adult , risk factor , immunology , gerontology , population , environmental health , optics , physics , sociology

There is an urgent need to understand high HIV-infection rates among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. While age-disparate partnerships have been characterised with high-risk sexual behaviours, the mechanisms through which these partnerships may increase HIV-risk are not fully understood. This study assessed the association between age-disparate partnerships and herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) infection, a factor known to increase HIV-infection risk.

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